The Feynman Technique: The Ultimate Guide to Learn Anything

Feynman is known as “The Great Explainer.” Unlike most scientists, he did not prefer to write his knowledge down on paper. Instead, he used verbal communication as the foundation for the majority of his published works.

Apart from that, Feynman used cartoonish diagrams to explain highly scientific principles. He could easily tap into complex ideas using shapes, lines, and drawings. This method helped him strip away the confusing language and permitted the power of storytelling to take precedence.

💡 An Idea For You

📑 I Enjoyed Reading

Why Books Don’t Work — “Human progress in the era of mass communication makes clear that some readers really do absorb deep knowledge from books, at least some of the time. So why do books seem to work for some people sometimes? Why does the medium fail when it fails?”

Wounds Heal, Scars Last — “We’ll recover from COVID-19, however long it takes. Stores will reopen, businesses will rebuild. The wounds will heal just like they did after September 11th. But what about the scars?”

The list of all the articles I’ve written can be found here. And the past three editions of Sunday Wisdom are here: 30, 29, and 28.

🤔 Worth Thinking About

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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